Be a DayTripper!This full day LONDON ROCK TOUR combines the Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll MORNING tour and the Classic Rock Legends AFTERNOON tour to create one fabulous MONSTERS OF ROCK London day tour - with time for an independent lunch at your choice of either the Hard Rock Cafe or in the West End. Our morning section covers Rock landmarks in bohemian Soho and the north London neighbourhoods of Camden Town, King’s Cross, Holloway and Islington. Then in the afternoon see Chelsea, Kensington, Holland Park, Notting Hill Gate, St John’s Wood, Marylebone and the West End.

London is the Capital City of Rock and Popular Music. In no other city will you find so much rock heritage in such a concentrated area – its been a magnet for rockers from Liverpool to Los Angeles, Manchester to Melbourne, Stockholm to Sao Paulo, Dublin to Detroit and Trenchtown to Toronto. From the 1950s to the current day, musicians, singers, producers, bands, lyricists and writers have come to London to seek, or expand their fame and fortune And in doing so, they leave a rich and growing legacy to be discovered and enjoyed: the recording studios where classic records have been made; stars homes, apartments and, alas, death sites; instantly recognisable film and video locations, and cityscapes captured forever on classic album covers; venues small and large; clubs and pubs; sites of famed drug busts; trashed hotels; management company offices; secret rehearsal sites; street names made famous through song lyrics; and boutiques and flea-markets where global fashion trends have started. Beatniks and Teddy Boys, Mods and Hippies, Punks and Rastas, Heavy Metal and Heart Throbs; this is a city of monumental rock landmarks where hardly a street is without a rock back-story!

You’ve found London’s original and founding rock tour company (since 1986). Let us share our passion with you: choose your itinerary from one of the many DAILY tours we run; half-day morning or afternoon or the full-day rock heritage tour, or choose one of our special band or genre tours. You’ll find full description for each tour on this site; just send an email to check the date and book. Whichever one you take, we’re looking forward to meeting our fellow rock fans.

Your record collection will never sound the same again: We will rock you!

Full Day London Rock Tour - Monsters of Rock!

London Calling! Depending on your age, this is either a chance to wallow in glorious nostalgia, or grab an ‘education’ in Rock history, its legends and myths, as your informed guide takes you on a magical, musical journey. Have those lyrics come alive and make the London connection. Over 100 iconic rock sites and locations enlivened with gossip, trivia and background information! This is a combination of both the morning and afternoon tours.

Our morning section covers Rock landmarks in bohemian Soho and the north London neighbourhoods of Camden Town, King’s Cross, Holloway and Islington.

In Soho and nearby ‘Tin Pan Alley’, Beatle fans can thrill at seeing Macca’s Golden Disc covered office, the flat where he wrote ‘Yesterday’, their Saville theatre, the NEMS office, early club and gig sites, and their fan club offices. Here, you’ll see clubs, pubs and studios where future rock ‘gods’ like Zeppelin, the Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen and Hendrix first strutted their stuff and laid down songs that three-generations of rock fans have since toe-tapped, head-shook, shower-sung, or a fresh-air guitared to! Legendary names like UFO, Marquee, 100 Club, Roxy and Ronnie Scotts.

North of the city’s centre you’ll visit trendy Camden Town and Islington of Madness, and ‘Brit-Pop’; seeing the studios where Pink Floyd cut ‘The Wall’ and found their school-kids chorus; where Amy Winehouse ended her short and sad life; where the Clash made ‘London Calling’, and Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. You’ll see where U2’s career got off to an inasuspicious start; where Hendrix burnt his first guitar.

Add to these where Jimmy Page cut his first disc in the fateful home studio where Joe Meek (the ‘Telstar’ man) also killed his landlady. Gig sites and clubs include the legendary Klooks Kleek, the Rainbow, Roundhouse and Hope and Anchor.

For lunch, you can either be dropped at the Hard Rock Café, where you’ve time to visit their impressive memorabilia vault and eat, or have lunch near our afternoon departure point(cost of food is seperate, to your own discretion.)

We’re touring sites that made the ‘Sixties’ swinging! See the boutiques, pubs and clubs that made a decade and inspired hundreds of well-known lyrics. For Beatle fans, there’s Brian Epstein’s flat, Ringo’s Kings Road apartment, John and Yoko’s first home, Paul’s current London home, the studio where the St Pepper’s cover was shot, Apple Office and boutique, EMI, the rooftop where the ‘Mop Tops’ the played their last ever live gig and lots more other Beatle-related landmarks. And, YES, you do get to walk across that famed ABBEY ROAD crossing!

The tour also covers where Geldof conceived Band Aid and the 1985 Live Aid, where and how the Sex Pistols was formed, the Clash’s neighbourhood and cradle of reggae. There are heaps of sites to please Pink Floyd and Queen fans. We pass the homes of Freddie Mercury, Bowie, Bolan, Jimmy Page, Macca, and Clapton to name a few and see where Jimi Hendix died. You never know who you might see in passing! For Stones fans there’s the legendary Edith Grove apartment, various of Jagger’s houses, the ‘Sticky Fingers’ restaurant. All this plus studios, record company offices, gig sites, secluded hotels favoured by the stars, album cover locations and story, after story, after story from your informed rock guide.

The Special Group Tours Advantage is our unique and intimate understanding of what you expect traveling in the UK and Europe. We have not only visited but have spent many years living in and loving the cultures you will experience down the ‘B’ Roads and off the beaten track. We have worked with local suppliers and our guide/companion team for over a decade, creating unique special interest itineraries. Special Group Tours offers our “insider” knowledge to you.

The SGT Small Group Touring Concept is traveling with just 4 - 14 guests per departure. It is our aim to introduce you to the 'real' country and its people, not just ticking the boxes of a standardized route and treating you as an individual and not a number. Our concept allows for a leisurely touring pace and flexibility to get off the beaten track to discover hidden gems. Of course you'll see the major sites but so much more too!

At Special Group Tours, it is our priority that you have the most enjoyable holiday possible. You deserve it!